Planning and Real Estate

Planning and Real Estate

Write an essay evaluating the statement that consultant planners are paid fees for work and advice that their clients could do themselves by talking to public sector (ie government) planners.

Guidance

This essay is asking you to set out reasons (ie arguments) for agreeing or disagreeing with the statement set out in ‘The task’. As a framework for thinking and writing about this you need a way of analysing the development process into its main parts. The suggested reading will provide ways of doing this. The categorisation of stages that you choose to use can be taken from any standard account of the development process.

You then consider (1) whether, and how, planning is significant in each stage; (2) if planning is important, then what kind of role and advice might a public sector planner be able to give a potential developer; (3) what kind of additional advice and assistance might a private sector planning consultant give. You might also think about whether the private sector planner has a different approach to evaluating development ideas from that of the public sector planner; (4) if there are differences between public and private sector planning approaches and capabilities, are these significant enough to warrant paying for private sector planning advice and assistance?

Reading/resources

 

Reed, R and Sims, S 2015 Property Development 6th ed London, Routledge chapters 1 and 6 especially.

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